What makes a writer?

Does it not depend on what kind of writer or at the very least what are the works? In general, however, I guess a writer should be drawn to writing like a magnet. As far as time is concerned I remember a short story I read of Hemmingway’s where one of the characters in the story was a writer of poetry but he wrote fast without much thought. Much time is devoted to thought for many writers but so is skill required to deliver any thought. Other writers need to push out content which is a different purpose for writing.

I would love to be a great writer someday. I joined a website where you right articles and people buy them howver, i have had no sucess with any of them yet.

I have been writing for a long time, and can easily write 500 words in 15 minutes. It just isn't something that I have ever had a problem with. I find that if I know a lot about the topic, I can write the words quickly and they just come straight to my mind instead of me having to spend a long time planning what I'm going to say and really thinking about it for too long. I honestly believe that I have a great talent for writing, and I hope that I am going to be able to make a living from my talent during the course of my life.

Well I think all the talent in the world can't get you anywhere unless you've also got lots of persistence and marketing skills so you can sell your writing. The publishing world is a selective business, and it works based on what sells and someone with talent has to have thick skin and determination if they're going to impress the publishing business. I don't think it matters how fast or slow that you write, just that you do and that you do it often enough. So it can take you one month or ten years to write a novel, just as long as you're writing that novel... you're a writer.

In my opinion,the urge to express yourself in writing is the most essential thing required to be a writer.A writer pours all his or her feelings on paper.So far as time is concerned,I would like to cite an example of what a great writer had said.Asked how much time he would take to write a story of lasting impression consisting of a couple of pages,he said,'Just half an hour.'Asked again how much time he would need to write a story of lasting impression consisting of only one paragraph,he replied,'A week.' Now draw your conclusion.

Writing is subjective and has a lot to do with the writer, his environment, his culture and his beliefs. I am talking about fiction now. Usually the way it works a person imagines himself in the role of a writer and he goes about learning how to do it as he wants to be a novelist or a fiction writer. Other times, the writing or the story chooses the writer and it is years before the writer realizes that it was providence and that over the years writing had become therapeutic and a coping mechanism. There is a difference between learning to write out of necessity and falling into it by accident. That is how it happened to me. A rotten childhood that left me sad most of the time and occupying myself with reading and books and writing to document my fears and keeping a sort of diary - not knowing that I was in the midst of helping myself. At twelve I was reading four books and got them from the mobile library at the house where I was born. That was the year I also wrote my first short story. I never heard from the network and of course it was probably a lot of nonsense I wrote. I wrote throughout my life since then and even lost my marriage as I was not prepared to stop writing. Today I write more than ever and probably write four or five thousand words a day.

I am a writer and fell in love with the written word from a very early age. As a writer I have had poetry published in 4 books, I have written for newspapers and am working on 4 children's books, a book of poetry of poems I have written, Over 250. I also am working on a Non Fiction book, Most writers choose a couple genre's they feel comfortable with and stick with that but a good writer can write in most any genre. It is a love, you paint with words, you tell a story, weave a tale, spin a yarn. Writer's write what they feel, think, live, they take inspiration from the world around them and their life experiences. I write poetry, children's stories, some western's and folk tales. I can write a mystery or romance but not something I relish. I also am working on a prehistory novel and a a sci-fi fantasy. We usually write something daily and we play with words, find things to inspire us and challenge us. It is not easy to get published with established publishers but it is easier to self publish and sell on venues such as Amazon.com. I also belong to writing venues on the net and write for them and get feedback from others and we have groups and challenge one another. Almost anything can trigger an idea and we take notes and even wake from dreams to jot down a story idea. It is talent and persistence. I can often write something in 5-15 minutes and other times I struggle to find the right phrase, sentence or idea I want to get across.

i think that you are right in saying that persistence is a good part of writing but i also think that inspiration is the other half of writing. these seem to go hand and hand when it comes to writing. i can write an article in that length of time. non fiction is my thing. research is also huge for me.

Hey there innerdoll, Any writer should have a whole bunch of qualities to be successful, and the right combinations in right amounts, but imagination, I think, is the one quality that can make or break an aspiring writer. Even if your language skills aren't that great, or if you take a lot of time to write what you want, if you have an imagination that can inspire and enrapture the reader, you've got everything you'll ever need. After all, when it comes down to it, all writing is intended to guide the reader through his imagination. And that, my friend, can happen only if the writer himself has one amazing quality - a powerful imagination.